Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to cut taxes for working families, stop handing out welfare to corporations, get rid of privatized Medicare programs, and end our involvement in the war on Yemen. Use the tools in the upper right-hand corner of this page (or, if you're on a cellphone, the bottom of this page) to find your Congressfolk's phone numbers and/or use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs.
First things first: Care2 helps you tell your Congressfolk to bring back the Child Tax Credit expansion, and Public Citizen helps you tell your Congressfolk to reject any and all tax cuts for corporations in year-end legislation. This ain’t that damn deep: working families need the extra $250 or $300 per month per child to make ends meet, and corporations don’t need any more welfare handouts from the taxpayer so they can pretend to create jobs while just enabling their executives to buy back stock. Which used to be illegal! Because it concentrated corporate decision-making power in the hands of the few! It’s a shame Congress doesn’t understand these things anymore – which is why we have to make them understand.
Demand Progress helps you tell your Congressfolk to get rid of private insurers within Medicare. Yes, I’m speaking of the so-called “Medicare Advantage” program, which has opened the door to private corporations for two decades now. I’m sure you’ve read the reports of Medicare Advantage overbilling and fraud; right-wingers used to say the private sector can do things more efficiently and cheaply, but Medicare Advantage clearly hasn’t done that with our tax dollars. Don’t be swayed by your friends and neighbors telling you that they know someone with Medicare Advantage and it’s really helped them. Medicare would have helped them the same, only for less money and with less fraud.
Finally, the Center for Rights and Dissent helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass a War Powers Resolution ending our involvement in the Saudi/UAE war on Yemen. Which has been going on for over a dozen years now, which hasn’t accomplished the Saudis’ supposed “aim” of a “stable” government, which has pushed millions of good Yemeni to the brink of famine, and which has mainly targeted the same Houthi rebels who are also some of the world’s best fighters of al-Qaeda. Really, no one in their right mind would set out to do any of this! And I hate to pile on, but our Constitution gives Congress, not our President, the power to decide when and where to go to war. So Congress needs to stand up, just like we stand up.
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